[rbdr/page] / README.md

# page

A static website generator for exactly 1 use case.

"I have a bunch of gemini files that I want to serve as-is, but I also
want to generate some HTML"

## How to use

1. Stand on the directory you want to turn into a page
2. run page
3. your html output is in ../<directory_name>_html
4. your gemini without frontmatter output is in ../<directory_name>_gemini

So for example:

```
$ pwd
/home/rbdr/web/website
$ page
$ ls ..
website/
website_html/
website_gemini/
```

## Front Matter

You can add some optional front matter. We'll look at the two first lines that
start with `---`

The format is:

```
--- title: the title of the page
--- description: a description
```

This only works if they are the first lines of the page.

## Local Path Translation

Links that end with `.gmi` will be replaced with `.html` unless they specifically start with `gemini:`

## Layouts

page expects a file called _layout.html in the root. It expects three placeholders:

* {{ content }} the generated HTML from parsing the gemini text files.
* {{ title }} the frontmatter title or an empty string.
* {{ description }} the frontmatter description or an empty string.


## Hidden folders

Hidden folders are copied as well, we only make an exception for `.git/`, and
`.gitignore` which are explicitly ignored. This is handy for folders like
`.well-known`, but could cause unwanted behavior if there's other hidden files
in the directory.

## What happens to files that aren't gemini?

They're copied as-is.

# Building

This project is built using cargo. A makefile is provided to run common tasks.

Build dev version with `make` or `make build`.

Build release with `make -e profile=release` or `make -e profile=release build`.
Commit	Line	Data
1e2d00b6 RBR	1	# page
	2
	3	A static website generator for exactly 1 use case.
	4
	5	"I have a bunch of gemini files that I want to serve as-is, but I also
	6	want to generate some HTML"
	7
	8	## How to use
	9
	10	1. Stand on the directory you want to turn into a page
	11	2. run page
05a467ca RBR	12	3. your html output is in ../<directory_name>_html
05a467ca RBR	13	4. your gemini without frontmatter output is in ../<directory_name>_gemini
1e2d00b6 RBR	14
	15	So for example:
	16
	17	```
	18	$ pwd
	19	/home/rbdr/web/website
	20	$ page
	21	$ ls ..
	22	website/
	23	website_html/
05a467ca	24	website_gemini/
1e2d00b6 RBR	25	```
	26
	27	## Front Matter
	28
	29	You can add some optional front matter. We'll look at the two first lines that
	30	start with `---`
	31
	32	The format is:
	33
	34	```
	35	--- title: the title of the page
	36	--- description: a description
	37	```
	38
	39	This only works if they are the first lines of the page.
	40
	41	## Local Path Translation
	42
	43	Links that end with `.gmi` will be replaced with `.html` unless they specifically start with `gemini:`
	44
	45	## Layouts
	46
	47	page expects a file called _layout.html in the root. It expects three placeholders:
	48
	49	* {{ content }} the generated HTML from parsing the gemini text files.
	50	* {{ title }} the frontmatter title or an empty string.
	51	* {{ description }} the frontmatter description or an empty string.
	52
	53
	54	## Hidden folders
	55
7a397dd9 RBR	56	Hidden folders are copied as well, we only make an exception for `.git/`, and
	57	`.gitignore` which are explicitly ignored. This is handy for folders like
	58	`.well-known`, but could cause unwanted behavior if there's other hidden files
	59	in the directory.
1e2d00b6 RBR	60
	61	## What happens to files that aren't gemini?
	62
	63	They're copied as-is.
48ea9080 RBR	64
	65	# Building
	66
	67	This project is built using cargo. A makefile is provided to run common tasks.
	68
	69	Build dev version with `make` or `make build`.
	70
	71	Build release with `make -e profile=release` or `make -e profile=release build`.
160a27bd	72